GLADMAN wrote:
tiompan wrote:
P to B in Welsh , and almost certainly in this case is due to lenition , probably because the Bica is grammatically associated with Carreg .The difference between P and Q where P has replaced the Q would be more like Welsh Pen = Gaelic Ceann .
That's interesting..... also interesting how the associations are applicable to large areas. As I recall TSC went to a Carreg Bica site recently near the Rhondda, whilst, of course, there's a Carn Bica overlooking Bedd Arthur in the Preselis. Quite a spread, although all lower half of the country.Whereas Idris associations - save a Castle Idris I came across last month in Shropshire - all appear upper Mid/North. Unless there are others?
Could they have been mythological champions, in a manner of speaking. North versus south. As everyone will know there's a very big divide nowadays?
